Monday, March 18, 2024

“Love Never Fails.” - March 18, 2024

 

Morning by Morning, March 18 - “Love Never Fails.”

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Be at the center of my heart and in every moment of my day. ...

 

“Love never fails” (1 Corinthians 13:8).

 

Whatever my challenges, “Love never fails.”

 

Whatever my questions about how to handle a tricky situation, speak with a difficult person, confront a heavy matter, respond to an intimidating concern, “Love never fails.”

 

Keep giving me the grace to keep turning to You. Keep putting Your thoughts in my mind, Your desires in my heart, Your words in my mouth, Your perspective in my spirit. Keep forming Your character in my character and Your nature in my nature. Always at the heart of Your character and your nature is Love, “God is Love” (1 John 4:18). And “Love never fails.”

 

As You are, so am I to be (1 John 4:17). As You are, so I seek to be. So as I seek to be “speaking the truth in love” and living the truth in love--all by Your grace and as best as I can--I can trust Your unfailing love to be at work in all I encounter and overcome (Ephesians 4:15). For “Love never fails.”

 

I may fail, but Your Love won’t. I may make mistakes, but Your Love won’t. So even if I make mistakes and even if I fail, Your Love will still be at work in every situation, even redeeming my failures and my mistakes, if my heart and spirit are pursuing the character and nature of Your Love (Romans 8:28).

 

“The steadfast Love of the Lord never ceases. His mercies never come to an end. They are new every morning. Great is Your faithfulness.... The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him” (Lamentations 3:22-25 ESV).

 

I’m a soul who’s seeking You, waiting for You, trusting in You. And I’m trusting the truth and the power of the promise of Your Word and every way You will manifest it though me throughout the moments of this day, that Your “Love never fails.” In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.


Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays


My friend, may you be filled with the grace and power of the truth that God's "Love never fails", as You pursue Him and His character in your life and in all your encounter today, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day!


Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries


New Mailing Address:

502 North Milam Street

Fredericksburg, Texas 78624


Please share this word to encourage a friend!

Anyone can sign up for free at:

https://messiah-ministries.org


My Books on Inner Healing, Spiritual Freedom and Spiritual Intimacy with God are Available on Amazon: 

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays


“Setting hearts free to be all they were created to be

—Free to Be Like Jesus—

secure in their identity, growing in maturity, fulfilling their destiny"


Please Keep us in Prayer for These

Messiah Ministries Events


March 22-24

Speaking at the Greater Things Conference at Mo Ranch for the Central Texas Area Annual Retreat for Aglow International Ministries



April 3

New Wine Worship at our Ministry Home Base in Fredericksburg, Texas.

All are welcome!


April 12 Men's Retreat on the Guadalupe River at Ingram, Texas


April 13

Speaking with Rocio at a Women's Retreat in Boerne, Texas


April 26-27

3rd Annual Revival at the Barn! at Yee Haw Ranch in Fredericksburg, Texas


May 3-5

Attending Rick Joyner's Christian Writer's Seminar at Moravian Falls, NC


May 28-June 2

Ministry in Cali, Columbia with Rocio and speaking at the Citywide Pastors Association Monthly Meeting in Cali on Inner Healing and Deliverance Prayer Ministry. Huge Open Doors! Praise God!


June 5-7

MorningStar Fellowship of Ministries Retreat at Fort Mill, SC


June 23

Preaching 3 Services at Bridge Church, Fredericksburg, Texas


July 30-August 1

Teaching the Healing Academy at Aldersgate Renewal Ministries, Goodlettsville, TN in the Nashville, Tennessee area


Tuesday Nights at 6PM

Teaching our 9 Month Equipping Course on Tuesday Nights at 6PM at The Bridge Church, Fredericksburg, Texas based on my books Free to Be Like Jesus! and First the Spirit

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays


Wednesday Mornings

Joining with MorningStar Ministries to Lead Online Restoration Ministry Sessions for Online Connect Groups from around the world.

 

Personal Ministry Appointments

Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment and as the Holy Spirit leads. Please keep us in prayer for spiritual breakthrough and transformation! Let us know if you'd like to set up a session: 

tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org

 Sessions are without cost and all contributions help support the calling and vision of Messiah Ministries.

https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute


Free On-line Video Series: Setting Hearts Free! 

My Core Teaching and Ministry

https://messiah-ministries.org/resources

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

“Great Exploits” - March 13, 2024

 

Morning by Morning, March 13 - “Great Exploits”

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I speak out Your name and listen for Your voice, for Your sheep hear Your voice and You know them and they follow You (John 10:27). ...

 

As I wait and listen for the leading of Your Spirit (Romans 8:14), I hear in my heart these words: “Great exploits.” ...

 

Immediately the Scripture of Your Written Word comes to mind in confirmation of what I’m hearing in my heart of Your spoken word from the end-time, prophetic Book of Daniel:

 

“Those who do wickedly against the covenant he shall corrupt with flattery; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits” (Daniel 11:32).

 

The prophet Daniel speaks of a time to come called “the appointed time” (v. 29). It will be a horrendous time of battles and intrigue, of grief and rage, of defilement and “abomination” (v. 31). But in the midst of it all, You will have a people who are called by Your name, who will know their God, who will be strong in the strength of the Lord, who will “carry out great exploits!” (v. 32)

 

Your people will overcome much and through their overcoming lives, keeping their faces and hearts turned toward You no matter what comes against them, they “shall instruct many” (v. 33). All that they endure and overcome shall only serve to “refine them, purify them, and make them white, until the time of the end; because it is still for the appointed time” (v. 35).

 

We don’t know the day or hour of those times or that “appointed time,” but You do. Our part is not to know the exact time, but to be ready now in our hearts for whatever times may come. As You said, “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world!” (John 16:33).

 

Our moments of tribulation may be battling cancer or a sickness, overcoming a culture hell-bent on rejecting God, persevering in prayer and holding fast to the Word of God despite a world that blasphemes our God and belittles the power and authority of Your Word even in parts of Your own “church,” or pressing into Your Presence when our hopes are dashed, our faith is challenged, our weaknesses are exposed, and our spiritual enemies seem to have a time or season of prevailing, as when Satan thought he had the victory on Good Friday before his crushing defeat of Resurrection Sunday!

 

But we find our peace in You. We have our victory in You. And even in the darkness, Your light will shine brighter. Even through the battles, Your people who overcome will ultimately prevail in Your power, doing “great exploits” by Your grace and for Your glory!

 

We don’t know all the times to come. But we do know the One who holds all time in Your hands. So I entrust myself to You. I seek to keep pursuing You, to know You, to be among those “who know their God” and “carry out great exploits” (v. 32).

 

Come, Holy Spirit. Prepare my heart today so that I may be ready whenever those days may come, whenever “the appointed time” is at hand. Refine me. Purify me. Make me white as snow in the cleansing of my soul through the Blood of the Lamb and the Fire of the Spirit! I desire with all my heart to be found faithful to You. And if it is to be, to be one of those whom You have called and commissioned to do “great exploits” in the power and authority of Your name in the times in which You’ve chosen for me and blessed me to be alive and see! In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.


Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays


My friend, may you be refined and purified, empowered and anointed, to carry out great exploits in the power and authority of the mighty name of Jesus, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day!


Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries


New Mailing Address:

502 North Milam Street

Fredericksburg, Texas 78624


Please share this word to encourage a friend!

Anyone can sign up for free at:

https://messiah-ministries.org


My Books on Inner Healing, Spiritual Freedom and Spiritual Intimacy with God are Available on Amazon: 

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays


“Setting hearts free to be all they were created to be

—Free to Be Like Jesus—

secure in their identity, growing in maturity, fulfilling their destiny"


Please Keep us in Prayer for These

Messiah Ministries Events


March 11-13

Leading a Free to Be Like Jesus Conference at Grafton Church near St. Paris, Ohio. Personal Ministry Sessions in the afternoons and Gatherings each Night for Worship, Message, and Ministry. We hearing testimonies as we go of all God is doing in healing hearts and freeing lives to advance in the Kingdom of God!


Contact Me for a Conference or Retreat in Your Church or Community: tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org


March 22-24

Speaking at the Greater Things Conference at Mo Ranch for the Central Texas Area Annual Retreat for Aglow International Ministries


April 12 Men's Retreat on the Guadalupe River at Ingram, Texas


April 13

Speaking with Rocio at a Women's Retreat in Boerne, Texas


April 26-27

3rd Annual Revival at the Barn! at Yee Haw Ranch in Fredericksburg, Texas


May 3-5

Attending Rick Joyner's Christian Writer's Seminar at Moravian Falls, NC


May 28-June 2

Ministry in Cali, Columbia with Rocio and speaking at the Citywide Pastors Association Monthly Meeting in Cali on Inner Healing and Deliverance Prayer Ministry. Huge Open Doors! Praise God!


June 5-7

MorningStar Fellowship of Ministries Retreat at Fort Mill, SC


June 23

Preaching 3 Services at Bridge Church, Fredericksburg, Texas


July 30-August 1

Teaching the Healing Academy at Aldersgate Renewal Ministries, Goodlettsville, TN in the Nashville, Tennessee area


Tuesday Nights at 6PM

Teaching our 9 Month Equipping Course on Tuesday Nights at 6PM at The Bridge Church, Fredericksburg, Texas based on my books Free to Be Like Jesus! and First the Spirit

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays


Wednesday Mornings

Joining with MorningStar Ministries to Lead Online Restoration Ministry Sessions for Online Connect Groups from around the world.

 

Personal Ministry Appointments

Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment and as the Holy Spirit leads. Please keep us in prayer for spiritual breakthrough and transformation! Let us know if you'd like to set up a session: 

tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org

 Sessions are without cost and all contributions help support the calling and vision of Messiah Ministries.

https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute


Free On-line Video Series: Setting Hearts Free! 

My Core Teaching and Ministry

https://messiah-ministries.org/resources

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

“Partakers of the Divine Nature” by the Grace and the Will of God - March 12, 2024

 

Morning by Morning, March 12 - “Partakers of the Divine Nature” by the Grace and the Will of God

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Put Your thoughts in my mind, Your desires in my heart, Your words in my mouth, as I seek to be more like You today (1 John 4:17). ...

 

“Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust” (2 Peter 1:2-4).

 

It's only by the grace of God, in the mystery of faith, that we can be “partakers of the divine nature.” We don’t every become divine, of course. But we do become more and more like You, as we entrust more of our nature to Your nature, more of our will to Your will, as our thoughts become more like Your thoughts and our desires become more like You desires.

 

Step by step on our spiritual journey, layer by layer on our inner transformation, we’re being conformed into the image of the Son of God, as we entrust ourselves as children of God to You as our Father God (Romans 8:29). As we behold You, set our hearts on You, turn our faces toward You, You are changing us by Your Spirit into Your image “from glory to glory” (2 Corinthians 3:18). Your Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, growing up to maturity, secure in our identity, finding our authority, fulfilling our destiny, by the grace of God (Romans 8:16).

 

So come, Holy Spirit. Help me in my human weakness with Your divine power (Romans 8:26). I can’t do it, but You can. I can’t even desire it apart from You imparting Your desires in my heart and Your thoughts in my mind. But I can say “Yes, Lord” to allow You to have Your way in me. I can make the choice -- as best as I can and all by Your grace -- to live by the Spirit rather than by the flesh (Romans 8:13) and to be led by Your Spirit instead of led by my flesh. “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God” (Romans 8:14).

 

In this way and all by the power of Your grace at work within me, I willingly choose to embrace Your calling and Your “exceedingly great and precious promises” to become one of Your “partakers of the divine nature” (2 Peter 1:4). “For it is God who works in (me) both to will and to do for His good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13). “For (You are) working in (me), giving (me) the desire and the power to do what pleases (You)” (NLT), as You keep changing my character into Your character and my nature into Your nature. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.


Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays


My friend, may you be one of those, who by grace and power of God at work within you, become a partaker of the divine nature by the grace and will of God, more and more every day, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day!


Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries


New Mailing Address:

502 North Milam Street

Fredericksburg, Texas 78624


Please share this word to encourage a friend!

Anyone can sign up for free at:

https://messiah-ministries.org


My Books on Inner Healing, Spiritual Freedom and Spiritual Intimacy with God are Available on Amazon: 

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays


“Setting hearts free to be all they were created to be

—Free to Be Like Jesus—

secure in their identity, growing in maturity, fulfilling their destiny"


Please Keep us in Prayer for These

Messiah Ministries Events


March 8-10 Thank you for your prayers! We loved our time and heard many testimonies of deep healing and spiritual freedom from our weekend inner healing seminar at the House of Prayer in Montpelier, in Northwest Ohio.


Rocio and I are so blessed to get a little time now at a cozy little cabin on the lake in the woods for our next three days of ministry in Central Ohio.


March 11-13

Leading a Free to Be Like Jesus Conference at Grafton Church near St. Paris, Ohio. Personal Ministry Sessions in the afternoons and Gatherings each Night for Worship, Message, and Ministry.


Contact Me for a Conference or Retreat in Your Church or Community: tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org


March 22-24

Speaking at the Greater Things Conference at Mo Ranch for the Central Texas Area Annual Retreat for Aglow International Ministries


April 12 Men's Retreat on the Guadalupe River at Ingram, Texas


April 13

Speaking with Rocio at a Women's Retreat in Boerne, Texas


April 26-27

3rd Annual Revival at the Barn! at Yee Haw Ranch in Fredericksburg, Texas


May 3-5

Attending Rick Joyner's Christian Writer's Seminar at Moravian Falls, NC


May 28-June 2

Ministry in Cali, Columbia with Rocio and speaking at the Citywide Pastors Association Monthly Meeting in Cali on Inner Healing and Deliverance Prayer Ministry. Huge Open Doors! Praise God!


June 5-7

MorningStar Fellowship of Ministries Retreat at Fort Mill, SC


June 23

Preaching 3 Services at Bridge Church, Fredericksburg, Texas


July 30-August 1

Teaching the Healing Academy at Aldersgate Renewal Ministries, Goodlettsville, TN in the Nashville, Tennessee area


Tuesday Nights at 6PM

Teaching our 9 Month Equipping Course on Tuesday Nights at 6PM at The Bridge Church, Fredericksburg, Texas based on my books Free to Be Like Jesus! and First the Spirit

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays


Wednesday Mornings

Joining with MorningStar Ministries to Lead Online Restoration Ministry Sessions for Online Connect Groups from around the world.

 

Personal Ministry Appointments

Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment and as the Holy Spirit leads. Please keep us in prayer for spiritual breakthrough and transformation! Let us know if you'd like to set up a session: 

tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org

 Sessions are without cost and all contributions help support the calling and vision of Messiah Ministries.

https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute


Free On-line Video Series: Setting Hearts Free! 

My Core Teaching and Ministry

https://messiah-ministries.org/resources

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays

Monday, March 11, 2024

“In Returning and Rest” We’re Comforted and Empowered - March 8, 2024


Morning by Morning, March 8 - “In Returning and Rest” We’re Comforted and Empowered

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I turn to You -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God--My Rock and Refuge, my Lord and Savior, my Healer and Deliverer, my Best Friend and Everlasting Father, my Wonderful Counselor and Prince of Peace, my Mighty God--I trust in You, rest in You, and seek to follow You, right now and throughout the moments of my day (Isaiah 9:6). ...

 

With some family matters going on in the distance and ministry matters here at hand on our ministry assignments, I’m sensing the strong need just to get into Your Presence this morning--resting in You, trusting in You.

 

A few Scriptures comes to mind right away:

 

“In returning and rest you shall be saved;

In quietness and confidence shall be your strength” (Isaiah 30:15).

 

I return to You. I rest in You. I get quiet before You and find my confidence and strength in You.

 

You know all I need. You provide all I need. And somehow, as you provide for my needs, You provide for the needs of others; as You comfort me, You comfort others. Even moments of my tribulation become moments of Your triumph, as I return to You and rest in You.

 

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God” (2 Corinthians 1:3-4).

 

Thank You for all Your comfort and love, Your encouragement and confidence. Thank You for strengthening me for all I need, as I find my strength in You--my “All in All” (Ephesians 1:23). And now in Your strength, empowered by Your Presence, I’m ready to arise and go into my day, excited to see all You will do! In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.


Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays


My friend, may you be comforted and empowered as you return and rest in the Lord our God, who is our Wonderful Counselor, Everlasting Father, Mighty God, Prince of Peace, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day!


Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries


New Mailing Address:

502 North Milam Street

Fredericksburg, Texas 78624


Please share this word to encourage a friend!

Anyone can sign up for free at:

https://messiah-ministries.org


My Books on Inner Healing, Spiritual Freedom and Spiritual Intimacy with God are Available on Amazon: 

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays


“Setting hearts free to be all they were created to be

—Free to Be Like Jesus—

secure in their identity, growing in maturity, fulfilling their destiny"


Please Keep us in Prayer for These

Messiah Ministries Events


March 8-10 Thank you for your prayers! We loved our time and heard many testimonies of deep healing and spiritual freedom from our weekend inner healing seminar at the House of Prayer in Montpelier, in Northwest Ohio.


Rocio and I are so blessed to get a little time now at a cozy little cabin on the lake in the woods for our next three days of ministry in Central Ohio.


March 11-13

Leading a Free to Be Like Jesus Conference at Grafton Church near St. Paris, Ohio. Personal Ministry Sessions in the afternoons and Gatherings each Night for Worship, Message, and Ministry.


Contact Me for a Conference or Retreat in Your Church or Community: tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org


March 22-24

Speaking at the Greater Things Conference at Mo Ranch for the Central Texas Area Annual Retreat for Aglow International Ministries


April 12 Men's Retreat on the Guadalupe River at Ingram, Texas


April 13

Speaking with Rocio at a Women's Retreat in Boerne, Texas


April 26-27

3rd Annual Revival at the Barn! at Yee Haw Ranch in Fredericksburg, Texas


May 3-5

Attending Rick Joyner's Christian Writer's Seminar at Moravian Falls, NC


May 28-June 2

Ministry in Cali, Columbia with Rocio and speaking at the Citywide Pastors Association Monthly Meeting in Cali on Inner Healing and Deliverance Prayer Ministry. Huge Open Doors! Praise God!


June 5-7

MorningStar Fellowship of Ministries Retreat at Fort Mill, SC


June 23

Preaching 3 Services at Bridge Church, Fredericksburg, Texas


July 30-August 1

Teaching the Healing Academy at Aldersgate Renewal Ministries, Goodlettsville, TN in the Nashville, Tennessee area


Tuesday Nights at 6PM

Teaching our 9 Month Equipping Course on Tuesday Nights at 6PM at The Bridge Church, Fredericksburg, Texas based on my books Free to Be Like Jesus! and First the Spirit

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays


Wednesday Mornings

Joining with MorningStar Ministries to Lead Online Restoration Ministry Sessions for Online Connect Groups from around the world.

 

Personal Ministry Appointments

Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment and as the Holy Spirit leads. Please keep us in prayer for spiritual breakthrough and transformation! Let us know if you'd like to set up a session: 

tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org

 Sessions are without cost and all contributions help support the calling and vision of Messiah Ministries.

https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute


Free On-line Video Series: Setting Hearts Free! 

My Core Teaching and Ministry

https://messiah-ministries.org/resources

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays